Have you noticed this?

[rtfoe]

It’s also down to tailoring the home made tool for the job. If you make it yourself it will do precisely what you want. No matter how good a purchased item is there will always be some task that eludes it….so you might as well learn to bodge it yourself from the off…..
As to PE, I am old enough to have had to learn to use PE before the bending tools were around. For small bends I have always had to make do with a good set of smooth jawed box jointed pliers (lindstrom are the best if anyone is interested) or a decent small engineers vice from Record. For long folds I have a couple of cheap six inch steel rules that I grip in the vice. For curves I have a variety of tubing and round stock offcuts, which can be used alone, or with a set of engineers V blocks I picked up cheap from a boot sale. I have been using these for over thirty years and have no yearning for a folding tool…..I must admit to thinking good proper tools are more useful over all.

Same with me Tim. The only expensive tool I have is my airbrush, motor tool, scriber and sprue cutter. Even my set of Tamiya tweezers were bought when they were cheaper in the old days and still used frequently.

Cheers,
Richard

[Tim Marlow]

I’ve got expensive good quality tools….just not really any model specific expensive tools….apart from a rolling mill and a drop riveter from back in the railway days. There are no generic tools that do the specific job they were designed for. As to motor tools, I have one that is a good thirty years old, must have used it about fifty times over all, and not for at least ten years……not really a cost effect purchase :tongue-out3:

[Airborne01]

I’ve got expensive good quality tools….just not really any model specific expensive tools….apart from a rolling mill and a drop riveter from back in the railway days. There are no generic tools that do the specific job they were designed for. As to motor tools, I have one that is a good thirty years old, must have used it about fifty times over all, and not for at least ten years……not really a cost effect purchase :tongue-out3:

I frequently find these 'specialist' tools don't do ' ... what it says on the tin ...'. Often I try to create a specialist tool' from strip wood, offcuts, styrene sheet, Lego etc (Don't always work though! :rolling:
Steve

[Airborne01]

I’ve got expensive good quality tools….just not really any model specific expensive tools….apart from a rolling mill and a drop riveter from back in the railway days. There are no generic tools that do the specific job they were designed for. As to motor tools, I have one that is a good thirty years old, must have used it about fifty times over all, and not for at least ten years……not really a cost effect purchase :tongue-out3:

Gucci tools do look good on the bench photo's though!

[Jolly Roger]

Regarding PE bending tools I bought one as bending boxes accurately beyond my capability to get all bends accurately bent for ready for soldering. I have seen on YouTube someone using a door hinge for bending.

[Airborne01]

Regarding PE bending tools I bought one as bending boxes accurately beyond my capability to get all bends accurately bent for ready for soldering. I have seen on YouTube someone using a door hinge for bending.

Sounds like a plan in some circumstances mate! Incidentally, Welcome and whereabouts in Durzet do 'e 'ail from?
Steve

[Tim Marlow]

Regarding PE bending tools I bought one as bending boxes accurately beyond my capability to get all bends accurately bent for ready for soldering. I have seen on YouTube someone using a door hinge for bending.

I seem to remember back in the early days of etch benders some one made an etched folding tool…..you had to fold it up to make it….so you could use it to fold other bits of etch????

[stillp]

I seem to remember back in the early days of etch benders some one made an etched folding tool…..you had to fold it up to make it….so you could use it to fold other bits of etch????

I've got one of those, came with a load of stuff I bought from someone giving up modelling.
It's not very good!
Pete

[Tim Marlow]

I've got one of those, came with a load of stuff I bought from someone giving up modelling.
It's not very good!
Pete

Always thought it was a bit chicken and egg….when you have completed it, you will find it easier to build it….

[Jolly Roger]

Sounds like a plan in some circumstances mate! Incidentally, Welcome and whereabouts in Durzet do 'e 'ail from?
Steve

Originally I came from Lancashire. Then Moved to Cheshire with my Job, from there I was promoted and moved to Dorset with the same Company. That was in 1977. Then in the mid nineties I was promoted again within the Company and worked in West Africa for twenty plus years during which I had a brief spell in Lithuania. all before retiring. I live approx. 5 miles out from Poole.

[Airborne01]

Originally I came from Lancashire. Then Moved to Cheshire with my Job, from there I was promoted and moved to Dorset with the same Company. That was in 1977. Then in the mid nineties I was promoted again within the Company and worked in West Africa for twenty plus years during which I had a brief spell in Lithuania. all before retiring. I live approx. 5 miles out from Poole.

Lovely area, I know it well!